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Zero Series: Programming Books You Can Run
Book-length programming curricula that take readers from first principles to runnable simulated worlds and playable Go games.
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- Beginning programmers who learn by building
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- The World spans 105 chapters and 2,875 pages, with each chapter ending in runnable code.
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The projects are structured as early-access volumes rather than short tutorials: The World moves through ecological simulation, while Game Engine Zero uses familiar arcade games as its entry point. The homepage says readers type and run every line, and identifies Go as the core language, with Ebitengine added for the game-engine material. A stated verification pipeline reruns commands in the text, though the extract does not expose its implementation.
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